Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection @eso.org. Some background info on how I produced the image and illustration using @jangafx.bsky.social Embergen luiscalcada.com/supernova-ex... 🔭🧪

Forged in fire. My cover for the latest @nature.com issue.
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ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.
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Double detonation: Zooming into Supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. New observations with @eso.org shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions.
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(ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger/VMC Survey/DSS2/P. Das et al. Background stars (Hubble): K. Noll et al.)

How massive can black holes get?
Our latest Chasing Starlight episode is out:
youtu.be/_HSHxxOIZCE
#astronomy @eso.org 🔭

That place is incredible! Enjoy. I'd love to come back soon, too.

Incredible moon rise behind the Extremely Large Telescope @eso.org
A stunning video taken on 13 March by our colleague Juan Beltrán, who works at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, not far from the ELT.
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3D scanning the mountain where @eso.org is building the biggest telescope in the world, the ELT, to import in UE5 @unrealengine.bsky.social game engine, for an interactive virtual tour—an exciting project I'm currently working on.
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Shooting day. Chasing Starlight, with Suzanna Randall at the European Southern Observatory @eso.org Have you watched the show, #astronomy?
youtu.be/BodtjPYFaP8

Simulations for @eso.org WASP-127b giant Exoplanet created using #EmberGen @jasonkeyvfx.bsky.social
#astronomy www.eso.org/public/news/...

Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System @eso.org
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet. #astronomy

Webcams have been installed inside the dome of the #elt We can now follow the day to day construction of the world's biggest optical telescope
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www.eso.org/public/outre...

My artist’s reconstruction of the star WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy to be imaged in close-up. It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. #astronomy #astro #astroviz

First close-up picture of a star outside our galaxy (left).
The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova. #astronomy #astro
Right side, my reconstruction of the system. www.eso.org/public/news/...

"Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments"
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Happy to see one of my old illustrations for ESO being used for the latest NASA/ESA JWST press release.

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A disc around a young massive star has been observed in another galaxy for the first time (using VLT and ALMA).
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A couple of shots I took of (one of the 4 unit telescopes of) ESO's VLT firing its 4 lasers into the atmosphere. Such an incredible machine in a magical place. #astronomy #astro #astrophotography

This is Valle de la Luna, in the Chilean Atacama Desert, close to where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is located. Photo by Petr Horálek
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